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China in vanguard of scientific progress
Science answers the question "why," while engineers modify nature according to scientific principle, construct a new society, and tell people how to do it. The material civilization that people enjoy in modern society is mainly created by engineering technology. Therefore, engineers are irreplaceable creators of new industry. In fact, science and technology made great strides in the 20th century. Estimates reveal that 80 per cent of global scientific discoveries, technological innovations and engineering constructions were attributed to scientists and engineers of the 20th century. Engineering achievements in the 20th century surpassed the wildest imagination of people in the 19th century. But China's history is completely different from the rest of the world. When New China was founded in 1949, after the Chinese experienced a century of humiliation and war, the Chinese people had to start the industrialization process from scratch, 200 years after Europe. We are gratified to see that Chinese scientists and engineers have made historic contributions to their motherland, even with some twist and turns. From the Jingzhang (Beijing-Zhangjiakou) Railway and Yumen Oilfield to Qiantang Bridge built by the Chinese in the early 20th century; from the Daqing Oilfield and the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing to the nuclear energy in the 1960s; from satellites to hybrid rice in the 1970s and 1980s, all these achievements paved the way for China's era of industrialization and modernization. Within 50 years, China succeeded in establishing an independent industrial system. Since the opening-up and reform of the country initiated by Deng Xiaoping, Chinese engineers have made further critical contributions to the high-speed economic growth, which has averaged 9 per cent annually, and to the marked social progress of the past 20 years. At the beginning of the new century, members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and other people from associations and societies under the China Association for Science and Technology, together with agencies affiliated with the State Council, cast their ballots to select "significant achievements of engineering technology in China in the 20th century," an activity sponsored by CAE. The peer ballot selected 25 items as the most significant for China and the achievements' stories are being compiled into a document to provide the society with a comparatively accurate description on the importance of engineering technology in China. China's research and development in atomic energy and satellites ranked the first on the ballot. The decision to develop atomic energy and space technology, made by the late Chairman Mao Zedong, was of great significance. When the decision was made between 1955 and 1956, the People's Republic of China was young and there was a lack of qualified experts. Science and technology were backward, and the industrial system was not established. However, it took only 15 years for Chinese scientists and engineers to complete the design and construction of, and successful experiments with, missiles (1964), the atomic bomb (1964), and the hydrogen bomb (1967). China also sent its first satellite into orbit in 1970, and its first nuclear-powered submarine set sail in 1971. These achievements put an end to the dispute about whether China could develop its industry, science and technology by itself. Looking back, we have reason to be gratified by all the Chinese engineering community achieved in the 20th century. But looking forward, all that is only a prelude to a bigger industrialization drive. The climax of the industrialization and modernization drive is still to come.
PetroChina Yumen Oilfield Company
Located in Yumen Oilfield Company, Gansu Province, Yumen Oilfield Company was established in 1999. Yumen Oilfield Company is a comprehensive territory company that concentrated on the "core business" as exploration, oilfield development, oil refinery and petrochemical, marketing, technology research and design etc. Yumen oil field started its development in the year 1939. Yumen is the first oil and gas base of China. There are 6 developing oilfield as Laojunmiao, Shiyougou, Baiyanghe, Danbei, and Qingxi, etc. The oil bearing area of the company is 60.4 km2 and accumulative proved reserve is 136.97 million tons. By the end of the year 2003, the accumulative oil production is 29.70 million tons and the recovery of OOIP is 23.65% while the recovery of recoverable reserve is 77.33%. Yumen oilfield is successfully keeping the water cut stable on 70% in the past 27 years. Products and Services The company mainly offers nine series of products, including vacuum greases, aviation hydraulic oil, lubricating grease, additives, technics oil, petroleum bitumen, polypropylene, paraffin wax, liquid petroleum gas and so on. Vacuum greases include mainly: No. 80 and No. 30 vacuum sealing wax, No. 80 vacuum sealing mud, No.1, No.2, No. 3 and No.4 vacuum sealing greases, mineral-oil-type vacuum pump oil, pressure pump oil and No.100 diffusion pump oil. Aviation hydraulic oil include mainly: No. 10 and No.15 aviation hydraulic oil, No.10 formal aviation hydraulic oil (field special type). Lubricating grease include mainly: No.2 low-temperature grease, No.4 high-temperature lubricating grease, No.3 white special lubricating grease, general purpose lithium base grease for autoCell Phone, No.2 and No.3 general purpose lithium lubricating grease, No.2 and No.3 molybdenum disulfide lithium grease with many kinds of package forms. Additives mainly include : T101 low-base-number disgregatant, T102 middle-base number disgregatant, T103 high-base-number disgregatant, T701 anti-rust additive, No.35, No.40, No.45, No. 50 and No.55 petroleum sodium sulfonate. Technics oilmainly include : No.3, No.5, No.7 and No.10 industrial white oil, No.10, No.15, No.26 and No.36 auxiliary oil, grade A white oil, instrument oil with anti-oxidant, No.1 and No.4 softening jute oil, No.320 and No.330 thermal-conduction oil, special kerosene and metal washing agent. Petroleum bitumen include mainly: No.10 petroleum bitumen for building, No.100, No.140 and No.180 petroleum bitumen for road. Polypropylenes include mainly four brand-number, PPH-XD-140, PPH-XD-045, PPH-XD-075 and PPH-ED-012.Paraffin waxes include mainly: all kinds of semi-refined paraffin wax and 70℃ microcrystalline wax.
China's oil giant at center of corruption probe
Grins were on the faces of China National Petroleum executives this week as they celebrated a blockbuster 30-year deal for Russian gas. It was a good day for CNPC, the state-owned colossus at the center of China's oil and gas webs and one of Eurasia's biggest energy investors. For some, however, those grins could soon turn to grimaces, because the deal comes against a backdrop of a series of high profile corruption investigations by the state, and CNPC has been caught in the dragnet. A former CNPC chairman is currently under investigation and a top executive of CNPC subsidiary PetroChina has just been arrested. They are two of the biggest suspects in a spiraling drive against corruption that has become a hallmark of President Xi Jinping's rule. The crackdown on executives at some of China's largest companies is yet more proof, if anyone needed it, that the Xi administration takes the latest anti-graft drive very seriously indeed. But behind the arrests and investigations, some China watchers see signs of internal strife at the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party. The list of energy execs under scrutiny by the national corruption fighting bureau, officially known by the Orwellian title, "Central Discipline Inspection Commission," is getting longer every week. One of the biggest fish was netted in September, when officials announced that CNPC's former chairman Jiang Jiemin was under investigation. Jiang also chaired CNPC's PetroChina subsidiary (ranked 6th on the Fortune Global 500 list), before his March 2013 move to head the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. Other prominent figures swept up by the state include: Bo Qiliang, PetroChina vice president in charge of CNPC's overseas business, detained on or around May 13; Zhang Benquan, general manager of CNPC's Iran subsidiary, detained in April; Yan Cunzhang, general manager of PetroChina's foreign cooperation department, detained in April; Li Hualin, former CNPC deputy general manager, reportedly a target of a Communist Party corruption probe; Wang Daofu, former PetroChina chief geologist, under investigation along with Ran Xinquan, former general manager at PetroChina subsidiary Changqing Oilfield Co.; Sun Weidong, former deputy manager of PetroChina subsidiary Yumen Oilfield Co., under investigation; Yang Guoling, assistant general manager and senior accountant at Yumen Oilfield Co., indicted for corruption; Three top executives at CNPC supplier Sichuan Star Cable reportedly disappeared in July 2013 and another either fell or jumped to her death in September. CNPC-linked companies are not the only energy and resources companies caught up in the crackdown. The former chairman and another former executive of China Resources Holdings Co. (233rd on the Fortune 500 list), are under investigation, as are several top executives at various geology and fuel companies. Zhu Changlin, head of North China operations at the State Grid (7th on the Fortune list), is under investigation, along with several managers at regional power operators. Jiang and several others of those named have been linked to Zhou Yongkang, one of China's most powerful men until Xi's advent, which has led some observers to suspect the net is tightening around Zhou, a former CNPC chairman and national security chief, who dropped out of sight last year. The corruption probes into former CNPC deputy general manager Li Hualin and Ji Wenlin, a former regional vice-governor who reportedly cut deals with CNPC, "are among several believed to be part of an unprecedented probe into Zhou," the South China Morning Post wrote earlier this year. If – and this is a big if – Zhou is formally charged, he would be one of the most senior Communist Party higher-ups ever prosecuted since the Communists came to power in 1949. In a related story, the South China Morning Post described how Zhou used the CNPC as a springboard to political power in the 1990s, which eventually saw him appointed to the supreme Politburo Standing Committee. There, he chaired the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC), which controlled police and security forces and the judiciary until some of its functions were transferred to the new State Security Committee, which was set up by the anti-corruption crusading Xi. Zhou retired in 2012, but the activities that reportedly amassed billions for him and his family apparently came under scrutiny upon Xi's accession to the presidency in 2013. Apart from rumors, nothing has been heard of him for months, and his name is taboo in official media, as BBC China editor Carrie Gracie noted on her blog. Some sources claim he is under house arrest. But no one knows for sure, and those that do aren't talking. Source: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Chinas-Oil-Giant-At-Center-Of-Corruption-Probe.html By Ky Krauthamer of Oilprice.com Image by Thierry Ehrmann
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2 Yumen Oilfield living in the same year Jiuquan base in Jiuquan City, the foundation of new urban areas, oil companies, "down the project" was formally initiated.
3 Yumen Oilfield living in the same year Jiuquan base in Jiuquan City, the foundation of new urban areas, oil companies, "down the project" was formally initiated.